[sugar] [IAEP] Narrative.

I posted a comment on Bryan's call for textbook/narrative creation.
http://www.olpcnews.com/content/education/scaling_constructionism_with_dynabooks.html
Let's do this, Bryan.
Where should we set up the workshop? What tools do we need? Wiki,
mailing lists, forums, repository...? I and others have plenty of
ideas for textbook replacements using Etoys, Measure, and other Sugar
Activities in pretty much every subject. What we need is a place and a
process, not only to write, program, and otherwise create learning
materials, but to get them tested in classrooms, refined, and put into
new curricula.
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 6:34 AM, Bill Kerr <billkerr at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:
>>>> Bryan Berry wholly captured my attention tonight when he said (in
>> summary):
>>>> "Sugar offers an excellent mode for discovery but no excellent way to
>> manipulate narratives. Both discovery and narrative are essential for
>> learning." [1]
>>>> This statement seems to me both indisputable and damning; if true, it
>> strikes to the core of the claim that Sugar is appropriate for learning.
>>>> Even though Bryan has already found some partial solutions to this
>> problem [2], we should take time to debate the more primitive thesis
>> that:
>>>> "Narrative is a basic component of much educational material which
>> Sugar ought to 'natively' recognize, respond to, and manipulate."
>>>> so that we may decide whether this issue should receive a greater share
>> of our limited design and implementation resources.
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Michael
>>>> [1]: Sugar presently records actions which may occasionally be
>> decomposed into narrative or situated within an external narrative;
>> however, Sugar is presently blind to these relationships.
>>>> [2]: Bryan is currently encoding narratives in HTML and is attempting to
>> use Offline Moodle to make this cheaper to support. I decided to write
>> this email because I believe that it might well be worth our time to
>> either give him a hand with his effort or to bake support for similar
>> use cases directly in to Sugar.
>> bryan's ideas are explained more fully in this article on olpcnews:
>http://www.olpcnews.com/content/education/scaling_constructionism_with_dynabooks.html>> the comments there are worth reading too
>> it's hard to discuss without having the ideas spelt out
> "narrative is good" is not really a sufficient basis for a discussion but
> bryan's article has more detail
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